Chemosystematic and microstructural investigations on Carboniferous seed plant cuticles from four North American localities

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 41-52

  Mosle B ^a   Collinson, M E ^a   Scott, A C ^a   Finch, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aliphatic hydrocarbon; Conifer; Cordaite; Cuticle; Electron microscopy; Pteridosperm; Pyrolysis

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; CUTICLE; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHYLOGENETICS;

UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; CORDAITALES; CORDAITES; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 0037101245     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-6667(02)00071-4     Document Type: Article

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